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Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov | As: Czar Ivan IV | |
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya | As: Czarina Anastasia Romanovna | |
Serafima Birman | As: Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya | |
Mikhail Nazvanov | As: Prince Andrei Kurbsky | |
Mikhail Zharov | As: Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov |
Storyline
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
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Certification: | NR |
Details
Genres: Drama, History
Language: Pусский
Release Date: 11 November 1944
Country: SU
Runtime: 95m
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Company Credits
Company: Mosfilm, TsOKS
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Cast
Nikolai Cherkasov |
Czar Ivan IV |
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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya |
Czarina Anastasia Romanovna |
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Serafima Birman |
Boyarina Efrosinia Staritskaya |
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Mikhail Nazvanov |
Prince Andrei Kurbsky |
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Mikhail Zharov |
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov |
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Amvrosi Buchma |
Czar's Guard Aleksei Basmanov |
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Mikhail Kuznetsov |
Fyodor Basmanov |
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Pavel Kadochnikov |
Vladimir Andreyevich Staritsky |
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Andrei Abrikosov |
Boyar Fyodor Kolychev |
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Alexander Mgebrov |
Novgorod's Archbishop Pimen |
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Maxim Mikhaylov |
Archdeacon |
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Vladimir Balashov |
Piotr Volynetz |
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Vsevolod Pudovkin |
Nikola, Simpleton Beggar |
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Semyon Timoshenko |
Kaspar von Oldenbock, Livonian Ambassador |
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Aleksandr Rumnyov |
The Stranger |
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Pavel Massalsky |
Sigismond, King of Poland |
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Valentina Kuznetsova |
Smiling Woman in the Church (uncredited) |
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Sergei Stolyarov |
(uncredited) |
Directed By
Sergei Eisenstein |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Sergei Eisenstein |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Sergei Eisenstein |
Producer |
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Edited By
Sergei Eisenstein |
Editor |
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Costume and Makeup
Leonid Naumov |
Costume Design |
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Nadezhda Buzina |
Costume Design |
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Vasili Goryunov |
Makeup Artist |
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Sound
Sergei Prokofiev |
Original Music Composer |
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Vladimir Bogdankevich |
Sound Designer |
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Boris Volsky |
Sound Designer |
Visual Effects
Camera
Andrey Moskvin |
Director of Photography |
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Eduard Tisse |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Yosyp Shpinel |
Production Design |
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Sergei Eisenstein |
Art Direction |
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Other Crew
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